Title :
A multimedia interhospital communications system for medical consultations
Author :
Orozco-Barbosa, Luis ; Karmouch, Ahmed ; Georganas, Nicolas D. ; Goldberg, Morris
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Ottawa Univ., Ont., Canada
fDate :
9/1/1992 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The authors present a study whose main objective has been to explore the use of high-bandwidth multimedia communications technology for medical applications physically distributed among hospitals, that is to say an interhospital multimedia communications system. The design and development issues of a prototype are described, as well as the results of an in-field trial. From the results of this trial, a performance study has been developed for evaluating the expected communications requirements of a large-scale configuration of the system
Keywords :
computer networks; medical administrative data processing; multimedia systems; PACS; computer communications; medical applications; medical consultations; multimedia interhospital communications system; performance study; Biomedical imaging; Computer architecture; Computer networks; Hospitals; Image storage; Medical services; Multimedia communication; Multimedia systems; Research and development; X-ray imaging;
Journal_Title :
Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Journal on
